“Between now and the time that a vote is held on your nomination, I think you've got some work to do to regain the confidence of a lot of the members on this committee,” said Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D.
The Australian government said a Chinese ship "was detected operating its hull-mounted sonar in a manner that posed a risk to the safety of the Australian divers who were forced to exit the water."
The new warhead variant is needed to provide “additional options against certain harder and large-area military targets,” according to the Pentagon.
With both versions of the NDAA complete, congressional leadership must now pick conferees for each chamber to sort out two vastly different defense policy bills.
While the Navy secretary insists he will meet the requirements under the law, Sen. Dan Sullivan says he's prepping legislation to force the Navy's hand.
The commission was supposed to be up and running by March, but that deadline came and went. Only three of eight members have been announced.
The company spent $300 million on four projects with the hopes of seeing two frigates being bought every year, which is faster than the Navy's current projection.
Lawmakers are setting the stage for a fight to stop the Navy from truncating its amphibious shipbuilding plans.
CAPITOL HILL: Presidents propose; Congress disposes. President Trump’s shipbuilding budget for 2018 is a placeholder that legislators can increase, the chairman of the Senate seapower subcommittee told me this morning. After Sen. Roger Wicker chaired a hearing with shipbuilding executives, following a classified hearing with Navy leaders, I asked him about Trump’s budget. Despite Trump’s […]
CAPITOL HILL: The Army’s official futurist may have overstated the case when he said “we are outranged and outgunned by many potential adversaries,” the service’s chief of staff said this morning — but not by much. To make things worse, Gen. Mark Milley told the Senate, we have become dependent on huge headquarters with lots […]
CAPITOL HILL: Despite tight budgets at the Pentagon, the Navy wants to speed-up several shipbuilding programs — amphibious warships, destroyers, and submarines — and Congress seems inclined to give them the money. That’s testimony both to the perennial political popularity of shipbuilding, which employs a lot of voters, and to the rising strategic anxiety over […]